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Women have plenty to deal with during menopause. There are mood fluctuations and hot flashes. And now a study adds documented memory loss.
更年期的女人有很多問題要應付，包括情緒波動和熱潮紅。如今，有一項研究證明更年期還會導致記憶力衰退。
In previous studies, women reported that they had memory lapses during menopause. The new study wanted to see if there was an objectively arrived-at connection.
在之前的研究中，女性報告說她們在更年期期間出現記憶衰退。這項新研究想要探究這兩者之間是否在客觀上存在聯系。
Researchers tested 68 women between ages 44 and 62 years on their attention and recall. All the women had reported having at least 35 hot flashes per week. One test involved looking at a line drawing for 10 seconds and then trying to reproduce the figure immediately afterward. The complexity of the drawing increased over 10 trials. In another test researchers read out a string of numbers and the subjects had to repeat the numbers back.
研究人員對68名年齡介于44至62歲間的女性進行了注意力和記憶力的測試。據報告，所有女性每周至少會發生35次熱潮紅。其中一種測試包括觀看線條畫10秒鐘，然后立即讓她們試著重新畫一遍。十次實驗之后，提高線條畫的復雜程度。在另一項測試中，研究人員讀出一組隨機數字，然后讓受試者重復一遍聽到的數字。
Women who'd reported trouble remembering indeed performed poorly on tests involving memory. And those who had more, and more extreme, hot flashes did worse on the tests than those who had fewer and less intense hot flashes. The study is published in the journal Menopause.
實際上，那些報告說記憶困難的女性在測試（包含記憶力測試）中表現很差。并且那些出現潮熱次數更多，更嚴重的女性在測試中比那些出現潮熱次數少且不那么嚴重的女性表現要差得多。這項研究發表在《更年期》雜志上。
The study shows that memory issues are indeed associated with menopause. Although in the midst of a hot flash, that assurance might be cold comfort.
這項研究證明記憶問題確實與更年期有關系。即使處于潮熱中，保證可能也算是安慰。
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